The Pipe Trades Aren't Pipe Dreams

There are outstanding career opportunities in the mechanical industry. If you are interested in applying for a management or professional support staff position, please contact the Mechanical Contractors Association by phone, letter or fax, or by e-mail at careers@mcamw.org . You may also feel free to contact any company listed in the Links section of the MCAMW website, www.mcamw.org.

Professional tradespeople who work for MCAMW companies are members of either Steamfitters Local 602 or Plumbers Local 5. If you are interested in becoming a member of either of these two excellent labor organizations, contact them through their respective websites: www.steamfitters-602.org, or www.local5plumbers.org.

If you have a high school diploma, or soon will have, and are interested in learning the mechanical trade, there are exciting opportunities available at UAM, the United Association Mechanical Trades School.

When you're accepted into the UAM program, you'll start right away as an apprentice, earning good wages and working side-by-side with experienced members of the trade. You'll be eligible for promotion and increased pay, too. Along with this invaluable on-the-job training, you'll take classes at the UAM, recognized as one of the finest institutions of its kind in the world.

The main UAM campus is located in Landover, Maryland at 8809 Ardwick-Ardmore Road. The new Virginia campus is in Springfield at 7552 Accotink Park Road. Your tuition for the classroom training won't cost you a cent. That's more than $25,000 worth of education free - and all the while you're a well-paid wage earner, on your own, making a good living.

Upon graduation in five years, you'll be a certified journeyman plumber or steamfitter, and well on your way to a solid career in one of the most skilled and highly-paid of all mechanical trades.

If you choose the construction side of the business, you'll be able to drive past some of the finest new buildings in the area and tell your children, "I helped build that." If you choose the service side, you'll be able to say, "I keep that building working right."

To learn more about the exciting educational opportunities at UAM, visit the website at www.uamtradeschool.com.